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Surviving Trauma: COVID-19 Deaths Only One Trauma Young People of Color Face

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Jan 22, 2021
3 min

Surviving Trauma: COVID-19 Deaths Only One Trauma Young People of Color Face

BY SAMARAH BENTLEY URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT NEW ORLEANS -- In one week, a patient of New Orleans clinical psychologist Dr. Baraka Perez lost three family members to COVID-19: Her father, brother and a nephew. "I'm seeing more of that than I care to," said Perez, who for 20 years has been helping children, adolescents and their parents cope with and move on from trauma. "My heart goes out to these people." As the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted everyone’s life, Black and oth

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Surviving Trauma: She Walks In Her Truth: Washington Woman Works to Help Other LGBTQ+ People of Colo

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Jan 20, 2021
4 min

Surviving Trauma: She Walks In Her Truth: Washington Woman Works to Help Other LGBTQ+ People of Colo

BY VANESSA FALCON URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT WASHINGTON, D.C. — Heidi Ellis, 36, was taught to love reading, to love her culture, and to love herself. Ellis, who identifies as lesbian and came out at the age of 19, knows she was lucky — lucky to be loved for who she is. Still, as a Black and Latinix woman who has struggled with severe depression and suicidal thoughts over the years, she knows how hard it can be for others like her. That helped convince the former Environmenta

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Surviving Trauma: Intergenerational Violence Affects Many in Black Community

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Jan 19, 2021
4 min

Surviving Trauma: Intergenerational Violence Affects Many in Black Community

BY AJMAANIE ANDRE URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT MIAMI – Charlene Bouie felt different from other children from an early age. It was decades, though, before she fully understood why: She’d been sexually abused, multiple times, by the time she was a young teenager. Then as an adult, she was physically and verbally abused by her ex-husband, a man who had experienced childhood violence himself when his grandmother’s boyfriend murdered his grandfather. This intergenerational cycle o

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Surviving Trauma: Separating Siblings in Foster Care Can Be Cruel

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Jan 19, 2021
4 min

Surviving Trauma: Separating Siblings in Foster Care Can Be Cruel

BY IJEOMA OKERE URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT WASHINGTON, D.C. — Growing up in the city’s foster care system, Lisa Cohen bounced between 13 different families over 19 years. Now 52 and a former boxing champion and motivational speaker in northwest Washington, D.C., Cohen never had a birthday party as a child, and has almost no family photos. She and her four brothers were placed in foster care when her mother was deemed abusive and unfit to care for them. Through all the changes

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Surviving Trauma: Domestic Abuse, Dulos Killing Motivate Mothers’ Political Activism

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Jan 19, 2021
6 min

Surviving Trauma: Domestic Abuse, Dulos Killing Motivate Mothers’ Political Activism

BY GILLIAN LAMPHERE and SAMANTHA ROSENGARD URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT GREENWICH, CONN. – It was only in looking back that the southern Connecticut mother of two saw all the red flags in her marriage: her husband criticized her looks, their childrens’ looks, how she cleaned the house, even her cooking. He’d stand over her, watching her every move, waiting for a mistake. In the early days of their relationship, he was sweet and charming, she said. The change in behavior was gra

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Surviving Trauma: ‘You Do the Right Thing No Matter What’: Coping With COVID-19

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Dec 29, 2020
3 min

Surviving Trauma: ‘You Do the Right Thing No Matter What’: Coping With COVID-19

BY KHIMMOY HUDSON URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT MIAMI — For Basil Binns II, 38, the trauma of COVID-19 struck early. His 70-year-old mother who has a history of bronchitis was among the first to fall ill with the virus in his community after attending a ski vacation with friends in February. She was hospitalized for two weeks, but recovered. Binns tested positive two days after. He quarantined at home, terrified that his wife, who was seven months pregnant at the time, would get

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